118. Developing scalable PHP applications using MongoDB
Updated on: 2015-01-18
Posted on: 2010-03-01
Nowadays there is a new kind of databases that is getting very popular, specially for Web development, including the PHP world, which are the NoSQL databases.
This article focus specifically on MongoDB, despite there are several other NoSQL database implementations.
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This article focus specifically on MongoDB, despite there are several other NoSQL database implementations.
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Updated on: 2015-01-18
Posted on: 2010-02-23
With the release of Facebook HipHop PHP compiler, the matters of performance of PHP compilers and runtime engines gained special relevance.
This article presents a performance comparison of between different PHP compilers and runtime PHP execution engines, so we can evaluate what is the best solution that can be used in different PHP environments.
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This article presents a performance comparison of between different PHP compilers and runtime PHP execution engines, so we can evaluate what is the best solution that can be used in different PHP environments.
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Updated on: 2010-02-10
Posted on: 2009-11-23
Gearman is a tool for distributing processing jobs over one or more machines.
This article explains how to use Gearman in PHP applications to handle better the load of busy sites or applications that need to execute heavy jobs.
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This article explains how to use Gearman in PHP applications to handle better the load of busy sites or applications that need to execute heavy jobs.
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Updated on: 2010-02-25
Posted on: 2009-07-06
The HTML 5 will definitely contribute to a better Web. Despite its specification is still being drafted, several browsers like Firefox 3.5, Internet Explorer 8, Safari 4, Chrome 2 and Opera 10 already implement a significant part of the current HTML 5 specification.
This article reviews a bit of the history of how we got to HTML 5 and presents an overview of the enhancements that HTML 5 introduces to provide a better Web.
It also presents a reflection about whether HTML 5 will render useless browser extensions like Flash, Silverlight and Java.
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This article reviews a bit of the history of how we got to HTML 5 and presents an overview of the enhancements that HTML 5 introduces to provide a better Web.
It also presents a reflection about whether HTML 5 will render useless browser extensions like Flash, Silverlight and Java.
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Updated on: 2010-02-10
Posted on: 2007-08-31
Everybody wants to squeeze as much performance of their Web applications as possible. Usually this requires skilled professionals to achieve. Fortunately, several performance evaluation tools are now available to make Web site performance tuning a much easier task.
This post discusses tools like YSlow and other techniques to tune your Web servers performance, as well the results of using such tools and techniques in a busy site like PHPClasses.
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This post discusses tools like YSlow and other techniques to tune your Web servers performance, as well the results of using such tools and techniques in a busy site like PHPClasses.
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Updated on: 2010-02-10
Posted on: 2007-05-29
This is a follow-up of last months post about defensive programming practices. This time the article focus on practices to survive Web site traffic peaks, just like what happened to the PHPClasses site last month when the previous post was approved to Digg's front page.
This article also announces a new Web hosting comparison service available to the PHPClasses site users.
The participation of Borland/Codegear as sponsor of the PHP Programming Innovation Award is also covered on this article.
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This article also announces a new Web hosting comparison service available to the PHPClasses site users.
The participation of Borland/Codegear as sponsor of the PHP Programming Innovation Award is also covered on this article.
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Updated on: 2015-01-18
Posted on: 2007-04-25
This article describes software development practices that have been used to prevent problems that can break Web sites.
This message also explains recent changes that were made to the site newsletter user options to reduce the site bandwidth usage to keep the hosting costs on budget.
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This message also explains recent changes that were made to the site newsletter user options to reduce the site bandwidth usage to keep the hosting costs on budget.
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